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12/28/11 – Kun is unlawfully arrested at the Beijing Airport as he tries to exit China
1/1/12 – Luoyang police assisted by a Silvercorp employee interrogate Kun from midnight until dawn
1/9/12 – Luoyang police transport Kun from the Zhengzhou airport in a Lexus owned by Henan Found (Silvercorp’s subsidiary)
1/x/12 – Luoyang police send Kun’s laptops for data extraction
2/12/12 – Luoyang police bill Wuhan Home Inn expenses to Henan Found
2/12/12 – Luoyang police transport Kun from the Zhengzhou train station in a Landcruiser owned by Henan Found
3/2/12 – Luoyang police try to force Kun to disclose passwords to bank and email accounts
3/5/12 – Silvercorp attempts to illegally subpoena bank records related to dozens of contacts the Luoyang police extracted from Kun’s laptops
3/12/12 – Luoyang police bill Chengdu Kang Ting hotel expenses to Henan Found
5/x/12 – Kun’s lawyer learns that the Chinese prosecutor rejected the criminal allegations against Kun on 3 separate occasions for lack of evidence
6/5/12 – Silvercorp discloses dramatically lower Inferred and total resources for its key Ying (SGX) mine
7/21/12 – Luoyang police arrest and imprison Kun without charging him with any crime while they continue their investigation
8/3/12 – Silvercorp discloses dramatically lower grades of ore produced from its key Ying (SGX) mine
9/8/12 – The Globe and Mail publishes a special report that independently verifies evidence that Silvercorp’s subsidiary Henan Found reimbursed Luoyang police expenses in violation of Chinese and Canadian law
9/17/12 – The Globe and Mail reports that the RCMP is in the assessment phase of a criminal investigation into Sivercorp’s alleged illegal payments to Chinese police
10/3/12 – Luoyang police again fail to convince the prosecutor to charge Kun with a crime so the police extend their investigation. Kun remains unlawfully imprisoned